Max Michael Wehrle

Max was born Friday February, 15, 2008 in Effinghmam, Illinois to some wonderful first-time parents at our church. At birth, Max was immediately taken to Neonatal Intensive Care. Initially his parents were unable to spend any time holding him due to his medical status. Max had trouble feeding and was diagnosed as having a congenital hole in his lungs. Strangely, the hospital displayed the films showing the hole in his lungs above his crib in the nursery. After seeing a hole in the lung, another film was ordered and the hole was easily seen by medical staff and visitors.

It was decided that Max was in critical condition and required more advanced medical intervention available more than 2 hours away at Children's Hospital in St Louis. A 4 person team was dispatched Sunday morning to transport Max to St Louis.

On Sunday, February 17, 2008, the morning service at Christ Tabernacle commenced as it often does with praise and worship, followed by a period of intercessory prayer. Some gathered near Max's aunt, and the prayer leader requested a prayer of healing submitted on Max's behalf in Jesus' name.

Within the next 10 minutes, the service shifted toward offering collection, and a song of praise.
It was then that Max's aunt received a text and phone call from Max's grandmother in Effingham. The message stated that when the medical transportation staff arrived, a member of the medical team insisted upon taking a third film of Max's lung. Ten minutes after prayer was submitted on this child's behalf, a film was displayed and confirmed by the medical staff from both hospitals that the hole in his lungs was gone Praise God!

Eventually, Max was transferred to Children's for a few days of observation and is already home and thriving. God is the engineer of lung tissue, and the healer of any hole anywhere in His creation according to His Sovereign Will.

Hallelujah